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Handbook of Intelligence: Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Cu…
Numerous functions, cognitive skills, and behaviors are associated with intelligence, yet decades of research has yielded little consensus on its definition. Emerging from often conflicting studies is the provocative idea that intelligence evolved as an adaptation humans needed to keep up with – and survive in – challenging new environments The Handbook of Intelligence addresses a broad ra…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-1561-3
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- XIX, 498
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- 150 HAN
Handbook of International Negotiation:Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Diplo…
This book reinforces the foundation of a new field of studies and research in the intersection between social sciences and specifically between political science, international relations, diplomacy, psychotherapy, and social-cognitive psychology. It seeks to promote a coherent and comprehensive approach to international negotiation from a multidisciplinary viewpoint generating a longer term of …
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- 978-1-4899-7583-6
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- XLIX, 438
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- 150
A Generation at Risk
With a Foreword by Desmond Tutu, Generation at Risk brings insightful perspectives from experienced practitioners and researchers on how a better future can be secured for the millions of children who are being orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. The current situation of these children is grim, and while there has been significant action by governments, international organizations, religio…
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- Geoff Foster,Carol Levine,John Williamson
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- 9781139164436
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- -
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Toward the Next Generation of Bystander Prevention of Sexual and Relationship…
This briefs integrates and synthesizes an array of research about who helps others and under what conditions and discusses the implications of this research for a bystander intervention focused prevention agenda to reduce sexual and relationship violence in schools and communities. It combines an examination of bystander helping behavior in the specific context of sexual and relationship violen…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-23170-9
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- XI, 118
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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A Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology
Commonsense psychology refers to the implicit theories that we all use to make sense of people's behavior in terms of their beliefs, goals, plans, and emotions. These are also the theories we employ when we anthropomorphize complex machines and computers as if they had humanlike mental lives. In order to successfully cooperate and communicate with people, these theories will need to be represen…
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- 9781316584705
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The Essential Guide to N-of-1 Trials in Health
N-of-1 trials, a type of individualized randomized controlled trial, are relevant to almost every discipline in medicine and psychology. They can tell the clinician with precision whether a treatment works in that individual, which distinguishes from the information available from most other trial designs. They have the potential to revolutionize the way clinical medicine is practiced. Whet…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-7200-6
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- XI, 245
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Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Epilepsy
Once feared and misunderstood even among the medical community, epilepsy has since largely been demystified. Besides the characteristic seizures, various cognitive, behavioral, and emotional difficulties are recognized as associated with the condition, and patients are finding relief in medical management and/or surgical intervention. Not surprisingly, neuropsychology has emerged as a major com…
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- 978-0-387-92825-8
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- XIV, 356
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- 611.83 HAN
Melanie Klein
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Klein’s vocabulary—the paranoid/schizoid…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-26083-9
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- VI, 112
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- SpringerBriefs in Education
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Language and Discourse in Special Education: Understanding Ethnographic Inter…
This book examines the words and discourse as well as their meaning and impact on the everyday culture of a multidisciplinary team at a school for students with mental disabilities. The book examines the organizational, social, professional, and emotional experiences of team members from such disciplines as child and school psychology, special education, therapy (e.g., occupational, speech), so…
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- 978-3-319-09024-5
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Treating Adolescents with Family-Based Mindfulness
A new take on therapeutic mindfulness with specific applications to troubled and delinquent youth is the focus of this innovative text. It introduces Family Mode Deactivation Therapy (FMDT) and its core concepts and methodologies, differentiating it from other cognitive and mindfulness therapies for adolescents with problem behaviors and comorbid conditions. Step by step applications of FMDT fr…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-12699-9
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- XI, 387
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